Halloween is just ELEVEN days away!! Do you have your costume yet?!!
Well, I thought it would be fun to travel “back in time”* to the seventies to see some of the things kids wore back then!!
Remember Witchiepoo from Sid and Marty Krofft‘s H.R. Pufnstuf?
Did you know her full name is Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo? It is!
In the 1970s, H.R. Pufnstuf was so popular with kids that there were Halloween costumes of some of the show’s characters!
Here’s an ad from Collegeville Costumes from 1975 which features Witchiepoo!
Here’s what that Witchiepoo costume looks like in real life!!
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Here’s a girl sitting at her schooldesk WEARING that costume!!
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Here’s a page from the 1973 Collegeville Catalog showing H.R. Pufnstuf himself!!
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Here’s what THAT costume looks like in real life…
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If you were a Lidsville fan, I think you’ll dig these Halloween costumes…
Here’s TWO different versions of the evil haberdasher Horatio J. HooDoo!
Koo-koo-kooky!
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Who was, of course, played by Charles Nelson Reilly in the TV show!
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Ok, who remembers Bigfoot and Wildboy from the mid-1970s The Krofft Supershow?
Here’s the intro… so good!
And… here’s the Bigfoot Halloween costume!
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Also part of the Krofft Supershow was Electra Woman and Dyna Girl…
https://youtu.be/eqB36FsglEE
Here’s Electra Woman’s costume… (I couldn’t find a Dyna Girl costume, sorry!)
Want to see some more vintage store-bought Halloween costumes from the Krofft shows? Check out THIS page! Spoiler alert: The Land of the Lost Sleestack one is pretty great!
*No actual time travel was involved in the writing of this blog post!!!